JohnnyEnglish tutorial Working with UE4 Materials - Revision history

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‎Introduction

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‎Material Instances

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‎What next?

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‎Explore your map with materials applied

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‎Painting with the Material Instances

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‎Material Instances

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‎Landscape Material

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‎Material Instances

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‎Material Instances

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	==Introduction==		==Introduction==
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		+	If you'd like to follow along with this section of the tutorial, you'll need to download the Models and Textures package from the [[JohnnyEnglish tutorial downloads\|tutorial downloads page]].
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	UE4 includes a very rich material editor, fortunately it's very easy to use and we'll use it now to start making all the materials we're going to need.		UE4 includes a very rich material editor, fortunately it's very easy to use and we'll use it now to start making all the materials we're going to need.

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 ==Material Instances==
-Right clicking the MM_TrainingRoomsPBRMaster material will give you the option to create a '''Material Instance''', do this and create 3 instances, name them MI_Concrete_01, MI_Concrete_02 and MI_Concrete_03
+Right clicking the MM_TrainingRoomsPBRMaster material will give you the option to create a '''Material Instance''', do this and create 3 instances, name them MI_Concrete_01, MI_Concrete_02, MI_Concrete_03 and MI_Concrete_04
 [[File:Mat05.JPG]]

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	UE4 includes a very rich material editor, fortunately it's very easy to use and we'll use it now to start making all the materials we're going to need.		UE4 includes a very rich material editor, fortunately it's very easy to use and we'll use it now to start making all the materials we're going to need.

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	In the next section, if you're following along we'll be adding more details to our map.		In the next section, if you're following along we'll be adding more details to our map.

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		+	==What next?==
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		+	In the next section, if you're following along we'll be adding more details to our map.
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		+	[[JohnnyEnglish tutorial Working with UE4 Materials]]

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	[[File:Mat10.JPG\|600px]]		[[File:Mat10.JPG\|600px]]
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		+	==Explore your map with materials applied==
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 ==Material Instances==
-There are performance considerations for all elements of UE4 mapping, while the engine is very powerful a game with a rich environment and many player characters will require be required to draw things, calculate things and deal with network traffic on every tick of the engine and when we can reduce the load on what is required, the game will perform better.
+There are performance considerations for all elements of UE4 mapping, while the engine is very powerful a game with detailed environments and many player characters will be required to draw things, calculate things and deal with network traffic on every tick of the engine and when we can reduce the load on what is required, the game will perform better.
 So we consider performance when we build the mesh by making it as simple as possible. We consider performance when creating collision, smooth simple collision will improve game performance, textures and other assets will also be optimized for performance.

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	[[File:Mat07.JPG\|600px]]		[[File:Mat07.JPG\|600px]]
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		+	==Painting with the Material Instances==
		+	Now we simply need to apply the material instances to the mesh, and paint the terrain.
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		+	[[File:Mat10.JPG\|600px]]

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		+	Open each of these in turn and select the correct matching texture for each of the instance slots, BC, M, R and N

	[[File:Mat06.JPG\|600px]]		[[File:Mat06.JPG\|600px]]